Well, it's official. After becoming a vice presidential nominee, an international political superstar, the best guest in the history of Saturday Night Live and a beloved cable TV personality, I can now add my recent turn as a tremendously hilarious comedienne to my resume. It was no walk in the park, either. I mean, looking like a comic genius next to the Jay Leno... I didn't think it could actually be done. But that's what Sarah Palin does. She tries for the impossible, she climbs those highest mountains and fights hard when all the critics and the media say she'll lose. Well, I didn't lose. If comedy is a boxing match, I won by technical knockout. That means I knocked 'em down several times in a row. Them being the audience and knocking down being making them laugh at my jokes.

I was honored to be asked to be a guest on Jay's show because it's one of my favorite programs on TV. It's just so funny the way he makes fun of all the celebrities. Because of my busy schedule I usually don't get to see it when it normally airs. Consuela, one of my assistants, makes sure to tape it for me every night, though. I know it's a bit old-fashioned to still have a VHS recorder, but I don't think there's anything wrong with a little traditional living. I do admit that it doesn't result in the highest quality recordings, though. Every once in a while I see a little skip in the footage. It's especially frustrating when it does that in the middle of Jay's monologue when he mentions my name. What if he has something important to tell me that he can only convey in talk show monologue form?

Anyway, I knew that I had to bring my best material to the show because everyone would be expecting me to really pile on the laughs. After all, it is a comedy show. Just because I'm a famous politician, cable news commentator, best-selling author and record-breaking Oprah guest doesn't mean that I'm not still obligated to contribute to Jay Leno's paragon of cultural satire and mile-a-minute humor. Luckily I had been working on a killer standup routine since around January '09, so I had a lot of great material to test out on the show.

Because of time constraints I couldn't do a full set on the mic like most of the comics who debut on Leno, but I think the non-traditional format of our conversational setup will ultimately make my early comedy career more memorable. I can just see it now, a loving retrospective of my contribution to American humor highlighting that fateful moment when I sat with legendary comedian Jay Leno and taught the nation how to laugh again.

The best part is that I think everything sounded so natural. Only hopelessly unfunny hacks sound like they prepared and practiced their jokes before the show. Real comics make everything seem so spontaneous and real. I mean, I really hit the audience with left-hook jokes like, "it's so cold in Alaska it's 5 degrees below Congress' approval rating". There's no way that sounds like something I came up with before the show and insisted on shoehorning into the conversation. I'm just that good.

I haven't booked any gigs yet, but it's only a matter of time before Hollywood comes clamoring for my comedic chops. But ya know what? Just like everything else I've ever done, I'm not in it for the fame or the money or out of some desperate attempt to keep myself in the spotlight. No, I'm in it to make people laugh. It's as simple as that.